Improvement in window-sashes



PATENT OFFICE. i

JAMES CQICIURRIER, 'on BRADFORD, VERMONT.

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` 1 Specification forming part of Letters Patent- No. 35,302, dated May .'10, i862;

Y To all whom t may concern:

Bradford, in :the county of Orange andStat-e of Vermont, have'inventeda new and useful Improvement 1n Window-Sashes; and l do hereby declare that.` the following/is a full,

i" v clear, and exact description ofthe sanie,.ref erence being `had tothe accompanying drawings, making; a part of this speeication, in

Fig. 3, a transverse section of the saine, taken .in the line fr, Fig'. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspendingI parts inthe several figuri-fi. This invention relates to'an improved. manner of securingthe.lights or panesof glass inthe saslnasl hereinafter fiillyshoivn and described, whereby the use. of" p'utty or any other plastic substance entirely avoided and the panes not only secured inthe sash so "as'to have wati-ir-tightprivater-proof joints, f 'but also ii'isueh a manneras to admitof being very readily inserted in the' sash and removed therefrom, so as to facilitate the renew ones therein -withont injuring the sash, as is frequently the `ease in cutting away'the putty hitherto used, and which becomes quite i hard byage. f

` ',ioA enable those skilled inthe art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to'describe it.

A represents the sash of a window, o a being' the stile's or side strips,A b b4 the top and bottom rails,-and e the crosspieces.` The top and bottom rails, Z1 b, are eaeh formed-0f two Y longitudinal parts, l 2the former beingse-4 cured to the latter by screws 3, and the ends of the upright cross-pieces o are"let in the parts 2 of the rails, said endsgheing notched, so as to admit of the part 1 being secured to i the outer` snrfaecs'of the cross-pieces. V i 1 Both sides of the crosslpieces c. are grooved i r longitudinally, as shown at ci, so as' to receive lthe edges of the panes e of glass.' These i i grooves are in 'the same planeivith the outer i surfaces of `the parts i of the rails b b of the `sash,`the grooves in the horizontal rail o 1e. ceiving the ends of the panes at the center of the sash, and the parts 1 of the' rails, when. screwed to'part 2, covering the ends of the whichjl s 4 YFigure l isa face or. front view of Amy in` vention. Fig. is an end .v-iexvof the saine;

,moval of broken panes and the insertion ofi i 23,and having its outer surface Hush with i panes at the upper and lower ends of the sash. Be it'known that I, JAMES GUERRIER, of

The inner sides of the stiles do ofthe sash are also grooved longitudinally, as shown at j', and the grooves (l in the sides of the vertical cross-pieces 'o and the grooves fin the 'Stiles receive the sides of the panes.

In order' to insert the panes e in the sash, the parts 1 of the rails 'b I) are unsereived and the panes shoved along in the grooves over 'the parts 3. The partsi arret-hen serewedto `the parts 2, and the panes thereby firmly secured in the sash. .The grooves d j" are of such awidth as to receivesnugly the edges ot the panes e and form tig-ht 'or weather-proof joints. By this arrangement it will be seen that broken'panes of glass may he very-.readily removedfrom the sash and whole ones inserted in their place and without disfiguring or marring the sash'in the least. The panes also may be secured perfectly weather-proof 'in the sash and will remain lso indefinitely,

wh ich is not the case Where puttylis used, for

the latter very frequentlyfin hardening `Will4 en -ack and shell oif. The removal of broken panes ot glass from a sash in which they are secured b'y putty inthe usual way is attended nith'some diilienlty, especially if the putty be old and hard, as it lfretjlnentl y adheres so tenaoiously to the sash as to cause the latter y to be split in removing the putty with a knife, andthe sash is Consequently disiignred. l Con-A siderable time also` is consumedin removing the putty 'in order to detach the unbroken panes and in applying fresh putty in insert? in g nenr or Whole ones.

The invention will not materially add t0 the cost in constructing sashes, while much labor will loev saved the manufacturer in inserting the glass, as Well as labor and time saved by .il C. URRIER.

li'itnesses:

RICHARDSON GAWLEYQ ,JAMES LAIRD.r 

